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“There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.”
Demosthenes quotes (Considered to be the greatest orator of ancient Greece 384-322)

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“Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states”
Demosthenes quotes (Considered to be the greatest orator of ancient Greece 384-322)

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“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.”
Victor Hugo quotes (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)

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“Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.”
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“The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep”
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“In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot”

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“It makes not the smallest difference to the motives of the thrifty and industrious part of mankind whether their fiscal oppressor be an Eastern despot, or a feudal baron, or a democratic legislature, and whether they are taxed for the benefit of a Co”


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“Add a beard and a space-despot wardrobe, and Gates has all the crowd appeal of Ming the Merciless.”
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“FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)

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“FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye --dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. --Naramy Oof”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
Mikhail Bakunin quotes (Russian anarchist Philosopher contemporaneous to Karl Marx. 1814-1876)
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“The American backwoodsman -- clad in his hunting shirt, the product of his domestic industry, and fighting for the country he loves, he is more than a match for the vile but splendid mercenary of a European despot.”
William Henry Harrison quotes (American 9th US President (1841). 1773-1841)

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“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”
Frank Herbert quotes (American science fiction Author and Writer 1920-1986)
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